On 30 May 1901, the West Schuylkill Herald of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, published a list entitled “Our Deceased Heroes,” in which soldier burials in area cemeteries were listed. All of the veterans named in the list were Civil War Veterans. Our Deceased Heroes Below will be found a list of the deceased soldiers […]
John Armstrong, about 41 years old, enrolled on 22 July 1863, at Philadelphia, in the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Battery F, as a Private. He was mustered into service on the same day at the same place. The record from the Pennsylvania Archives (shown above), indicates that he was discharged on 18 May 1864 on […]
Two Harrisburg newspapers printed a brief obituary of George F. Rhawn when he died on 13 September 1896 at Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The first was the Harrisburg Telegraph, 14 September 1896: An Old Halifax Veteran Dead George F. Rhawn, an old Halifax war veteran, died Sunday evening at the residence of County Commissioner Isaac […]
John Powell, who was born in England about 1844, enrolled in the 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery on 26 January 1864 at Philadelphia. Although the above Pennsylvania Veterans’ File Card from the Pennsylvania Archives states that he did not muster into service until a year later, other records indicate that the card is in error and […]
John H. Primm, a Civil War veteran, lost his grandson to drowning in the Susquehanna River as a result of a capsized canoe in April 1926. The son, Malcolm Primm, was born in 1908 in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and was a tech student in Harrisburg. Two companions escaped by swimming to the shore, where […]
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